The Ballad Of Cedric-Moxy Fruvous

[ti:The Ballad Of Cedric] [ar:Moxy Fruvous] [al:The 'B' Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ballad Of Cedric - Moxy Fruvous [00:01.78]Up until just recently [00:02.68]Gambling was thought to be blasphemy [00:04.76] [00:05.39]Like wilson phillips evil stuff [00:09.38] [00:11.01]But canada is changing fast [00:12.30]Loosening it up at last legally [00:14.46] [00:15.06]The new narcotic take a puff [00:18.97] [00:20.58]Casinos open to raise funds for social needs [00:25.75]Full of roulette wheels [00:27.17]Black jack and video slot machines [00:30.04]Now guys like cedric perform benevolent deeds [00:35.57]I've been saving up my welfare [00:36.75]Just to throw the dice on the velvet greens [00:39.22] [00:39.85]Money made by dealing folks [00:41.05]Goes to helping healing folks 'cross the land [00:43.64] [00:44.37]I stand and proudly gush [00:47.74] [00:49.43]Casinos are a ministry handled governmentally [00:51.86]Show your hand [00:53.29] [00:53.93]I almost had a royal flush [00:57.43] [00:58.69]Since cedric spent his last dime on 15 to 2 [01:04.39]I put my chips on 32 red it went to black instead [01:08.66]Guys like cedric are pulling medicaire through [01:13.89]Now they're asking me to leave [01:14.90]And I'm poor and I'm peeved so I just might heave [01:17.85]So he mortgaged the house and he traded the kids [01:20.23]And he studied the odds and he practiced the bids [01:22.71]The he ran to province next door to his [01:24.96]Where casinos were a brand new flourishing biz [01:27.57]His new found luck at blackjack brought him such wealth [01:32.21]They realized he'd make a perfect minister of health [01:37.65] [01:38.56]Now he's wearing all the hats [01:39.70]Hanging out with bureaucrats at bookie joints [01:42.18] [01:42.88]He's a public money sponge [01:46.83] [01:48.22]Watch him place another bet [01:49.34]We go deeper into debt losing points [01:52.72]And credit ratings plunge [01:56.61] [01:57.45]We've made a virtue of that which used to be vice [02:02.76]Lower tax on corporations gambling donations pay the bills [02:07.23]Now gambling addicts are civil servants with dice [02:12.53]Selling health to the hopeless pocketing the profits curing our ills [02:16.69]Our social service is getting nervous [02:21.51]As cedric hands it to one-armed bandits [02:26.21]It's hell for purists but swell for tourists so yeah